Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the potential link between extreme weather events and the number of malaria cases.

The UK recognises the important links between extreme weather events, exacerbated by climate change, and the number of malaria cases. The UK has spearheaded global efforts to recognise the impacts of climate change on health, through the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP), and to build stronger, climate resilient health systems that are better placed to respond to malaria in the context of extreme weather events through the Climate Resilient and Sustainable Health Systems Programme and Climate and Health Research Programme. We are also a leading donor in the fight against malaria through our support to the Global Fund and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.